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We are introduced to a Mishna where a question is answered by Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel. If a son and a father - or a person standing to inherit and the person who is giving the inheritance - die together when a house collapses on them, we need to know who died first in order to know whether the son's wife and creditors will be paid what they are owed or whether the father's inheritors will split the inheritance.
Beit Shammai say that we split the inheritance, and the inheritors receive half while the son's wife and creditors receive half. Beit Hillel say that we leave the inheritance as it was according to chazaka, and the inheritors each receive their inheritance.
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